For the next few months or so, we'll be running "Quick Quotes", which is based on the game Bring Your Own Book. We'll be posting a new prompt each week, and you'll then be tasked to grab any book you have on hand and have a flip through it to find a suitable quote and post below.

We’ll also be giving out 10 beans per quote, so be creative!

Without further ado, our first prompt is:A hero's catchphrase

As an example, from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare:

But, soft!

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"I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."
- Edward Everett Hale

I was just reading the second book of two I'll be writing about for Winter's Challenge (only 200 more pages to go!), when I saw this.

My contribution, though not perhaps particularly creative is:

The game is afoot.

The hero is question is Sherlock Holmes, whom I was always fascinated by. He is one of the central characters from works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This quote comes from The Adventure of the Abbey Grange and here it is in its entirety.

"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. "The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!"

"In three months, our country celebrates its five hundredth anniversary. To celebrate that celebration, I shall, on that sundown, take for my wife the Princess Buttercup of Hammersmith. You do not know her yet. But you will meet her now," and he made a sweeping gesture and the balcony door swung open and Buttercup moved out beside him on the balcony.
And the crowd, quite literally, gasped.

The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Class Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman

Miracle Max, who is in the book. But that quote is not precisely as it is in the book ...

From Good Omens -- The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

"Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows."
His forehead creased for a moment, and then he slapped the steering wheel triumphantly.
"Ducks!" he shouted.
"What?"
"That's what water slides off."'
Aziraphale took a deep breath.
"Just drive the car, please," he said wearily.
They drove back through the dawn, while the cassette player played J. S. Bach's Mass in B minor, vocals by F. Mercury.